
Libby Nelson
Former Editorial Director, Politics & Policy
Latest articles by Libby Nelson


A fight is breaking out between the national groups and some local affiliates about whether the tests help or harm students of color.


Trying to get rid of No Child Left Behind has led former ideological foes to join hands — and the Obama administration is on the other side.


An overwhelming, bipartisan majority voted to roll back the federal role in education.


The activist took matters into her own hands — and was immediately arrested.


“We were always here, always.”


It concluded a moving speech about racial justice at the Emanuel AME pastor’s funeral.


The state senator and pastor of Emanuel AME Church was among the nine killed.


“Never underestimate that a group of determined individuals can change the world,” one judge says as she began to marry couple No. 10.


Couples are already getting licenses in Georgia, Michigan, and Ohio.


A century and a half after the Civil War, politicians across the South are repudiating the flag on their license plates and at their capitols.